The word “tape” has long since moved from specific physical reference to metaphor. Most tape loops and mix tapes and tape recordings today are entirely digital, and the word “tape” serves as an aura-enhancing vestige of a time and place way back when and where those metaphors originated.
In the past year, the cassette tape [...]
Examples of work by Dutch artist Dennis de Bel, including his Sew-O-Phone and Vacumonium:
Another example of contemporary artists making good on Erik Satie’s idea of furniture music.
More on de Bel at his website, danos.nl. Found via everydaylistening.com, which links to audio of the Vacumonium.
Images by Chris Supranowitz of an LP groove (top) and the surface of a CD (bottom), as seen through an electron microsope:
If nothing else, a sure reminder of the various physical realities and resulting metaphors that distinguish the two media: vertical versus horizontal, linear versus random, analog versus digital, gritty versus clinical.
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The Make empire continues to expand, this time with its own take on the do-it-yourself gadget/fetish entrepreneurship that already has a substantial consumer culture going over at etsy.com. Enter the Markers Market (makersmarket.com), which has a section set aside for music-related objects, including these three instruments, from top to bottom the “Atari Punk Console Kit” [...]
In his latest Robair Report entry, Gino Robair ponders the divide between physical and digital instruments:
“I have an original Oberheim SEM (35 years old, serial number 100) that I used for an A/B comparison in the article. I certainly don’t regret the $600 I paid for it (used), as it continues to serve me well. [...]
The winner of the Northern Arts Prize for 2010 is Pavel Büchler, whose recordings of applause were the subject of an entry here back in October 2008 (disquiet.com). Büchler’s works in various media, and his “You Don’t Love Me” is “an installation that uses a reel to reel tape deck, a bottle of whisky and [...]
The group show that closed yesterday at the Vancouver, Washington, art gallery Archer was titled Vantage, and it focused on “perspective – visually, contextually, and perceptually,” according to its brief description at the gallery’s website, at clark.edu. Among the pieces in the exhibit was Greg Pond’s interactive sound sculpture “That Intricate Never,” as shown in [...]